[Niubi]

Ok heres the problem...

divxes suck on mac even with the divx doctor function of the divx player bit of software and playing it in qt player....therefore, I wish to convert all twent nine of my divx flicks to mpeg or mov....

I open it in quicktime...and choose to save as mov not allowing any dependancies..why then after an hour and a half of quictime chugging away do I still need the divx player open in order to play the freaking thing???

arghhhhh!

ALSO!!!

How comes I have installed the 3ivx codec yet cannot see any mention of it when I look through the quicktime players advanced saving settings etc etc

please help chaps this sucks the fat one!!!

hiya!
I'm not totally sure, but I think you need to choose export from the file menu, not save as. Then, in the Settings or Options (depending on version) dialog of the Export dialog, choose a codec like sorenson or sorenson 3 or h.263 (h.261 would also be okay if you want to sacrifice some quality for encoding time). Then click OK. Then click Save or export (depending on version, again. Did this help?

[Niubi]

that helps a lot thatnks...but next problem....it takes ages!!!

I gace qt player 100 meg of memory asked it to export as 3ivx and then went to bed...8 hours later and it's only a third done!!!

lol this cannot be right can it?

[Matthew Attoe]

hey


another brit who is into dv

Nice to meet you


matthew


ps. no idea what your problem/solution is...

Hey there, same unregisted as above. I wondered if that might take too long for ya. Since it is, your best bet would be h.261. the quality drop really probably won't even be noticable, and it will encode in near real time, maybe even faster on a fast machine (its around realtime on my imac 350 128MBs, OSX10.0.4)

[Randycat2001]

It's kind of silly to expect fast encode times for 3ivx (not with today's hardware, at least). It is MPEG-4 afterall- a very compute intensive algorithm! You should probably stick to Sorenson or h263 (as suggested by some earlier) if you want decent encode times. (Actually, I haven't seen much of a encoding speed difference between 3ivx and Sorenson v.4, but I'm sure there are some settings in Quicktime that you can tweak for speed. I haven't spent too much time with this.)

How long are these Divx clips, anyway? Encoding to decent quality and good compression (basic Sorenson) should put you somewhere in the ballpark of 20+ min encode time per 1 minute of DV (your times may be longer if you are converting from one format into another vs. encoding straight from DV). At least, that is what I've been experiencing on my G3 350 (I've only done it a few times, mind you). Times will increase drastically if you have any other power-hungry background tasks or screensavers running.

[KyLeW]

3ivx is not optimized yet. I read a thread on there site where someone (I think from 3ivx) was saying that they expect a nice performance increase once they optimize it. However I find the 3ivx encoding speed not much slower than S3 as it is. (But I only encoded a couple clips so far)

[Niubi]

Many Thanks For All Your Help!!!

Makes me go all gooey sometimes how nice the users here at macnn are

Anyway RandyCatt 2001 I am encoding monster full length films...naughty copyrighted stuff y'know from 600-700 megs...
I have been playing around a lot with the 3ivx codec and I have to say it is just awsome... I got a 700 meg divx dvd rip down to 232 megs using 3ivx and qualcomm purevoice for the sound....awsome quality considering 460 something megs had gone from the file size! And even better that I didn't need no crappy divx software stuff to play it...

So I am setting off on a long road of encoding my 55 divx films, saving me aboot 30 gigs of Hd space...therefore one must worship the creators of 3ivx as the glorious deities that they are.

Next problem though is Mpegs into 3ivx...I go through this process afor I get stuck...

1. use bbdemux to get the streams
2. Convert mpa into qualcomm purevoice on the sound side
3. Convert the mpeg to a 3ivx on the visual side
4. Cry that I can't get the two back together using quicktime or any shareware out there!
5. Bang head furiously and wish I hadn't of thown my Pc outta the window in a fit of Ant-Establishmentarianism
6. Cried Again

As you may tell this has been a blight on my otherwise happy existence as a mac user!

Ok, thats about it for now....what a rant!

TIA

Just copy the audio track and paste it onto the video track.

[stux]

Add it actually

cmd-opt-v or choose Add from the edit menu.

[Niubi]

thats the thing.


I have no option to "add" in my edit menu ...I am running OS 9.1 with latest quicktime, and there is no option to add, when I do the cmd option v thing, it just makes half the movie sound and the other half visual....grrrrrrr

thaks though, but any more ideas?

Just hold option while clicking the Edit menu and add should be there. Tada!

[Niubi]

Thanks for the help.... nice stuff